Shari of Whisk: What's in My Fridge

Photo by WhiskEvery Friday in our "What's in My Fridge" feature, we'll be chatting with a different food blogger, asking them about their favorite foods and what's in their fridge.

This week, I interviewed marketing manager/mom to three girls Shari from Whisk. Find out what she munches on while cooking, what she's dying to cook in duck fat, and her morning guilty pleasure.

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Tell me about your blog.

I had always wanted to go to Le Cordon Bleu cooking school, ever since I'd tasted a meal at a restaurant where the chef owner had attended the Paris school. It was the best meal I'd ever tasted. Before I started blogging, I was reading several food blogs, devouring books like Julie & Julia and The Sharper Your Knife the Less You Cry and Ruhlman's The Making of a Chef, when, through the magic of Google, I stumbled across the curriculum from Le Cordon Bleu. I decided to focus my blog by working through the Basic Cuisine classes. I ended up completing Basic Cuisine (both on my blog and at the Ottawa campus) in the Fall of 2009 and am now slowly working through Basic Pastry on my blog and saving up to attend another semester someday.

What's in your fridge right now?

Lots of butter, cream for making homemade ice cream, lemons in hopes of making lemonade before they go bad on me, fresh fruit, moldy cheese, homemade mustard and jams, leftover spaghetti, a variety of yogurt, leftover pizza, strawberry rhubarb pie (wish I could say I made it), Mrs. McGarrigle's mustards, ketchup for the kids, capers, soy sauce, lemon Perrier, beer, loads of eggs, bacon, dulce de leche, three types of yeast (all expired), a variety of veg, and lots of expired condiments.

In Ottawa, during the warmer months there is an outdoor market, the Byward Market, set up every day and filled with fresh and mostly local vegetables and some fruits. Flowers and maple syrup are other things I'll pick up when I'm there.

Favorite part of the fridge?

The fruit drawer when it's filled with lots of interesting and ripe fruit.

What's on the outside of your fridge?

With three kids, the artwork and certificates and notes pile up. I display them on the fridge until they're completely stained and water-marked and then replace them with the latest masterpieces.